From: twcaps@tennyson.lbl.gov (Terry Chan)
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Subject: Re: Hotel California and Satanism
Date: 9 May 1993 00:46:02 GMT
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prater@minerva.cis.yale.edu (Ethan Evan Prater) writes:
+>On a related note, I saw the Phil Collins's "In the Air Tonight" is not
+>about a death Phil Colins witnessed. What's the source for that?
caedmon@cats.ucsc.edu (Jeffq) writes:
+I thought it was about his brother drowning. But I was then told it
+was about the man who raped Phil's wife. I'm just wondering if Phil even
+HAS a brother and a wife. :)
+
+If it's the latter, one can assume that Phil 'walked in' on the act.
Oh boy! Wait till you see this reference. In response to a similar
query, I quote the following:
"The 1977 hit was inspired by a painful incident in Phil
Collin's life--but not one concerning his brother. After
the singer's first wife, Andrea, left him, he poured his
heart into 'In the Air Tonight.' Collins explains:
'People ask me, 'Aren't you embarassed? You're putting
your private life out for all to see.' It's like I
oughtn't to let people see that I was hurt, that I cry,
that I do 'unmanly' things. But I'm not embarrassed by
it.' Collins, 41, wed the former Jill Tavelman in 1984
and no doubt hopes this marriage doesn't end with another
sad song--no matter how many records it sells."
--"Walter Scott's Personality Parade,"
27 September 1992, _Parade_ in
_Sunday Examiner and Chronicle_
Kind of boring huh?
Terry "I prefer the heroin addiction version" Chan
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